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Chinese woman says she is detained in secret location after Beijing protest

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Video purportedly shows 26-year-old editor, who accuses police of forcing her and associates to sign clean arrest warrants

A Chinese lady has accused police of forcing her and associates to sign clean arrest warrants and detaining them in secret places over their attendance at a protest vigil in Beijing last year.

A video, presupposed to be of Cao Zhixin, a 26-year-old editor at Peking University Press, started spreading on-line on Monday. In it, Cao said she and 5 associates attended a riverside vigil in Beijing on 27 November, to mourn the victims of a constructing fireplace in Urumqi. The fireplace had been linked to the enforcement of China’s strict zero-Covid coverage and have become a catalyst for vigils and protests.

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